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Posted - October 27 2010 : 07:46:00
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Question: What is an RSS feed and how do I subscribe to it?
Answer: Great question. In the same way that a web page is just a text file with special formatting, an RSS feed is just a text file with special formatting. As a text file, you can open it up in Notepad and read what it says. RSS feeds work using a program called an RSS reader. Internet Explorer 7 and 8 and Outlook 2007 and 2010 include RSS reader functions, and Opera and FireFox also have this feature as well. RSS feeds are supposed to be updated pretty frequently. For instance, our show notes are available as an RSS feed. You subscribe to an RSS feed by going to a web page that has a feed. Click the link and your browser (I'm looking at Internet Explorer) will load the feed. On that page will be a link you can click that will subscribe you to that feed. From that time forward, your browser will download that RSS file on a regular basis and you can get back there by just going to your feeds menu. Check out the show notes for lots of information on using RSS to stay up to date on the stuff you really care about.
Cool Site: GraceThruFaith.com: This week, we've got a great cool site in http://www.GraceThruFaith.Com. Last Sunday, I had to prepare a sermon because my pastor was out of town and I found this site. Gracethrufaith is the website of Jack Kelley, author of such books as "Children's Stories of the Bible, The Adult Version", "The Stories of the Patriarchs", and "The Seven Churches Chronicle." He has many articles on prophecy and we'll have links to a couple of them in the show notes, like "The Powerful Delusion" and "Seven Things You Have to Know to Understand End-Times Prophecy". Everything on the site is available free, although donations are accepted and welcomed. You'll find a gift shop on the site where you can preview any or all of several sermons or lessons in .mp3 format, and you can choose one for download. The site has an RSS feed that you can subscribe to and keep up with the latest articles. I promise you, this site is a treasure trove of information.
Cool Gadget: SteriShoe: This week's gadget is the sterishoe. You know, there are a lot of products out there that are designed to kill foot fungi. But putting your feet back into those same shoes just puts the fungus back on your feet. And then there's the issue of foot odor. Well, the sterishoe is a shoe-shaped germicidal ultraviolet light. Just put it in your shoes for 45 minutes and the UV light will (they claim) kill 99.9% of germs that cause foot odor and infections. It runs $130 for a set of two, and replacement UV bulbs are about $12. This is great for diabetic foot care, or for someone who has really heavy foot odor, that kind of thing.
It's All "Geek" To Me: String: This week, our word is string. This is a programming term that's working its way into more general usage. It refers to character-based data, and so is also referred to as a character string. Your name is a string, for instance. Your Social Security or Phone Number is a string. Consider a string is in contrast to numeric data. A computer can use numbers as either a string of characters, or as a number you can do math on.
Links
Tech Tip Friday's Show Notes RSS Feed:
http://www.daconsult.com/downloads/rss.xml
RSS at Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS
RSS Tutorial – How to subscribe to feeds:
http://rss-tutorial.com/rss-how-to-subscribe-to-feeds.htm
YouTube video of Subscribing to RSS Feeds with iGoogle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQCdW0NXRBo
YouTube video of Subscribing to an RSS Feed in Internet Explorer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q04v9H_mWZ8&feature=related
Grace Thru Faith:
http://gracethrufaith.com
The Powerful Delusion:
http://gracethrufaith.com/ikvot-hamashiach/the-powerful-delusion/
Seven Things You Have to Know to Understand End-Times Prophecy:
http://gracethrufaith.com/ikvot-hamashiach/seven-things-you-have-to-know-to-understand-end-times-prophecy-part-1/
Sterishoe at Gearlog:
http://www.gearlog.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=8&MaxResults=30&search=sterishoe
Sterishoe:
http://www.sterishoe.com
String on TechTerms:
http://www.techterms.com/definition/string |
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